"News and Views" includes a wide range of themes and there are several regions in Area 6 - Projects helping Children worldwide, the latest News of everything happening across the site, the website Guestbook [including a number of appeals for help], FOCUS, where we throw the spotlight on items of interest to schools, parents and children, Creativity [stories, artwork, poems, articles, jokes and a large selection of Aesop's Fables], and some interesting articles from Kathryn Watts about the lifestyles of kids in other countries.

The
Projects Helping Children Worldwide area has recently been massively overhauled and added to [there's now a colour-coded alphabetical index to countries and regions], and we've created new index pages for the different continents, along with links for organizations like SOS Children's Villages and a number of projects in India including child fish workers and the Bethany Home for destitute children. Any support any of you can offer for organizations like these would be much appreciated :)

Our thanks to all visitors to Project HappyChild who responded to the Appeal (on site from December 1999) from Scott McDonald, Task Force Falcon, USA, for supplies, such as pens, pencils, crayons, paper for the school sponsored by the 709th MP Battalion in Kosovo. Scott McDonald's follow-up letter is included on the previous Appeal page.

The original story in our Creativity area - "Glaxibel The Avenger" still receives many page views - as do the 220 Aesop's Fables now on line. It isn't planned to add any new content to the Creativity area in the months ahead (please see "The Journey" page) but there's an outside chance we may be able to do so again at some time in the future.

Project HappyChild is for ALL children - a huge range of free educational resources and free worksheets are provided on the site here, and we provide links to a great many others (all "free" at time of making the links).

Schools Interchange (Area 9) is designed to enable schools to make contact with other schools right across the
world. This whole area has recently been massively updated and now links to something over 400,000 schools on line.

Area 2 (the Directory) and the Syndromes Links Index (Area 8) detail
resources available for disadvantaged or ill children, and the
worldwide Projects Helping Children section in Area 6 highlights specific help
needed for kids in various parts of the world. Many kids have
unbelievably awful existences in comparison with the lifestyle
most of us take for granted.

We'd welcome your active support for the many organizations
featured in the Directory, and for those involved in worldwide
Appeals and Projects that help children. If the resources of this website have helped you or your children in any way, please spare a thought for less fortunate kids and (if you're in a position to do so), send a small donation *somewhere* :)

Schools who wish to get involved in fundraising for any of the organizations featured will find ideas for raising money here.

Active support from Companies and individuals would also be
appreciated :)

To reach the Index for the different areas of News and Views, please
click here.